ECON 2001.01 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Demand Curve, Takers, Complementary Good
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A market refers to the buyers and sellers who trade a particular good or service. In a market there are many interactions between buyers and sellers which make the market work. Markets can exist in any place wherever and whenever an exchange takes place. Price is determined through the interactions of these buyers and sellers. Any place where factors of production are bought and sold. Any place where finished goods and services are bought and sold. In order for a transaction to occur there must always be a buyer and a seller behind it. The seller is on the supply side of the market. The buyer is on the demand side of the market. The amount of a particular good or service that buyers are willing and able to purchase at a given price. The lower the price, the higher the quantity demanded, all other things equal. Displays the quantities demanded at various prices on a chart.